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Phishing attacks remain among the most prevalent cybersecurity threats, causing significant financial losses for individuals and organizations worldwide. This paper presents a machine learning-based phishing email detection system that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Amitabh Chakravorty , Matthew Price , Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed

Traditional spam classification requires the end-user to reveal the content of its received email to the spam classifier which violates the privacy. Spam classification over encrypted emails enables the classifier to classify spam email…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Sicong Wang , Naveen Karunanayake , Tham Nguyen , Suranga Seneviratne

Recent threat reports highlight that email remains the top vector for delivering malware to endpoints. Despite these statistics, detecting malicious email attachments and URLs often neglects semantic cues linguistic features and contextual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Andrey Yakymovych , Abhishek Singh

The Internet is used by billions of users every day because it offers fast and free communication tools and platforms. Nevertheless, with this significant increase in usage, huge amounts of spam are generated every second, which wastes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Omar Husni Odeh , Anas Arram , Murad Njoum

An improved email classification method based on Artificial Immune System is proposed in this paper to develop an immune based system by using the immune learning, immune memory in solving complex problems in spam detection. An optimized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Ismaila Idris , Shafii Muhammad Abdulhamid

Spam is commonly known as unsolicited or unwanted email messages in the Internet causing potential threat to Internet Security. Users spend a valuable amount of time deleting spam emails. More importantly, ever increasing spam emails occupy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Md. Saiful Islam , Abdullah Al Mahmud , Md. Rafiqul Islam

Electronic mail services have become an important source of communication for millions of people all over the world. Due to this tremendous growth, there has been a significant increase in spam traffic. Spam messes up user's inbox, consumes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-09 Dhinaharan Nagamalai , Beatrice Cynthia Dhinakaran , Jae Kwang Lee

Despite a large amount of effort devoted in the past years trying to limit unsolicited mail, spam is still a major global concern. Content-analysis techniques and blacklists, the most popular methods used to identify and block spam, are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-09-01 Dominik Schatzmann , Martin Burkhart , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

The increase in people's use of mobile messaging services has led to the spread of social engineering attacks like phishing, considering that spam text is one of the main factors in the dissemination of phishing attacks to steal sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Mai A. Shaaban , Yasser F. Hassan , Shawkat K. Guirguis

We propose a new detection algorithm that uses structural relationships between senders and recipients of email as the basis for the identification of spam messages. Users and receivers are represented as vectors in their reciprocal spaces.…

A great variety of text tasks such as topic or spam identification, user profiling, and sentiment analysis can be posed as a supervised learning problem and tackle using a text classifier. A text classifier consists of several subprocesses,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Eric S. Tellez , Daniela Moctezuma , Sabino Miranda-Jímenez , Mario Graff

The Internet has dramatically changed the relationship among people and their relationships with others people and made the valuable information available for the users. Email is the service, which the Internet provides today for its own…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-10-24 Foruzan Kiamarzpour , Rouhollah Dianat , Mohammad bahrani , Mehdi Sadeghzadeh

Phishing and spam detection is long standing challenge that has been the subject of much academic research. Large Language Models (LLM) have vast potential to transform society and provide new and innovative approaches to solve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Suhaima Jamal , Hayden Wimmer

Malicious emails including Phishing, Spam, and Scam are one significant class of cyber social engineering attacks. Despite numerous defenses to counter them, the problem remains largely open. The ineffectiveness of current defenses can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Theodore Longtchi , Rosana Montañez Rodriguez , Kora Gwartney , Ekzhin Ear , David P. Azari , Christopher P. Kelley , Shouhuai Xu

Spam messages are an increasing threat to mobile communication. Several mitigation techniques have been proposed, including white and black listing, challenge-response and content-based filtering. However, none are perfect and it makes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-08-19 Ji Won Yoon , Hyoungshick Kim , Jun Ho Huh

In this paper we discuss the techniques involved in the design of the famous statistical spam filters that include Naive Bayes, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency, K-Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machine, and Bayes Additive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-10-15 M. Tariq Banday , Tariq R. Jan

Large language models(LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on many natural language processing(NLP) tasks and have been employed in phishing email detection research. However, in current studies, well-performing LLMs typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zijie Lin , Zikang Liu , Hanbo Fan

The battle between email service providers and senders of mass unsolicited emails (Spam) continues to gain traction. Vast numbers of Spam emails are sent mainly from automatic botnets distributed over the world. One method for mitigating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Eitan Menahem , Rami Puzis

Communication through e-mails remains to be highly formalized, conventional and indispensable method for the exchange of information over the Internet. An ever-increasing ratio and adversary nature of spam e-mails have posed a great many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Gopi Sanghani , Ketan Kotecha

The identification of spam messages on social networks is a very challenging task. Social media sites like Twitter \& Facebook attracts a lot of users and companies to advertise and attract users of personal gains. These advertisements most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Prakamya Mishra